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22 - Martin v. City of Boise (the Homeless)

from Part X - Situational Outsiders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Roy L. Brooks
Affiliation:
University of San Diego School of Law
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At the time Martin v. City of Boise was decided, over half a million individuals in America were unhoused on any given night. Of this number, two-thirds were sheltered and one-third were unsheltered. Municipalities have often responded to the problem of homelessness by prosecuting unsheltered individuals under vagrancy laws or by enacting no sit/sleep/lie statutes. The City of Boise follows this tradition of criminalizing the unsheltered, or unhoused. Boise’s Camping Ordinance makes it a misdemeanor for individuals to camp in public, and its Disorderly Conduct Ordinance prohibits individuals from occupying a public or private space without permission from the owner.

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Diversity Judgments
Democratizing Judicial Legitimacy
, pp. 536 - 557
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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